Jasmine Paolini
Jasmine Paolini (; born 4 January 1996) is an Italian tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 44 in singles and 122 in doubles. Paolini has won one singles title (at the 2021 Slovenian Open) and one doubles title on the WTA To ...
in the final, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. It was her first
Wimbledon
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singles title and second
major
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singles title overall.
The loss of
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Hrdličková ( née Plíšková; ; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles, reaching the top of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings on 17 July 2017 and holding the pos ...
in the first round guaranteed a first-time Wimbledon finalist from the bottom half of the draw. Paolini ultimately emerged as that finalist, becoming the first Italian woman in the Open Era to reach the Wimbledon semifinals and final. Paolini also become the first woman to reach back-to-back
French Open
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and Wimbledon finals since
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...
in 2016 and the first Italian woman in the Open Era to reach the final at two different majors. The semifinal match between Paolini and Donna Vekić was the longest women's semifinal in Wimbledon history, at two hours and 51 minutes.
Markéta Vondroušová was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to
Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro
Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro (born 24 September 2002) is a Spanish tennis player.
Bouzas Maneiro has career-high WTA rankings of 174 in singles, achieved on 6 February 2023, and 201 in doubles, attained on 9 January 2023. She has won eight singles ...
. This marked only the second time in the Open Era that the defending
Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* ...
women's singles champion lost in the first round, after
Steffi Graf
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1994
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Lulu Sun became the first woman representing New Zealand to reach a major quarterfinal since Belinda Cordwell at the
1989 Australian Open
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Seniors
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, and the first qualifier to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals since Kaia Kanepi in
2010
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Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match statistics
Seeded players
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 24 June 2024. Rankings and points before are as of 1 July 2024.
† The player did not qualify for the main draw in 2023. She is defending points from an ITF event and a
WTA 125
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesEntry list